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Aerial view of Hughes plant . . . world's largest and most modernly equipped rock bit manufacturing plant.
Also located within the 70-acre area is the block-long Hughes Research and Engineering Laboratory.
What Hughes offers Drilling Industry
1. Complete Stock of bits ... in required sizes
and types ... manufactured in sufficient quantities to meet the needs of the entire industry.
2. Bit recommendation service: Hughes can
make available to you a recommended bit program for any area — based on the industry's
greatest rock bit experience.
And you can get informition which will enable
you to correlate bit types with formations, with
your drilling practice and hydraulic capacity of
your equipment.
Also, Hughes has two copyrighted hydraulic
bulletins that can aid you in getting the most out
of your present equipment and in the selection
of new equipment.
3. Continuous drilling research . . ■ carried
on in the laboratory and field for nearly a half
century. Facts obtained in the laboratory and
WHEN YOU RELY ON HUGHES YOU TAKE
THE GUESSWORK OUT OF BIT SELECTION
field are used in developing new and improved
rock bit designs and in anticipating the problems
created by changing drilling techniques.
4. Industrywide organization and system for
gathering information and forecasting bit requirements for each drilling area. This assures
you that no matter where you drill, Hughes bits
of the right sizes and types will be available to
meet your particular drilling requirements.
HUGHES
TIOL COMPANY
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WORLD STANDARD
OF THE INDUSTRY
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